Illusion is the first of all pleasures.

Personality must be accepted for what it is. You mustn't mind that a poet is a drunk, rather that drunks are not always poets.

Art persists, it timelessly continues.

The condition of perfection is idleness: the aim of perfection is youth.

Faithfulness is to the emotional life what consistency is to the life of the intellect - simply a confession of failures.

I threw the pearl of my soul into a cup of wine. I went down the primrose path to the sound of flutes. I lived on honeycomb.

When a man is old enough to do wrong he should be old enough to do right also.